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This is one of the first smallmouth I caught while fishing at Banks Lake. Anglers can plan on having a ball catching smallmoth at Banks this summer. Three-inch Senkos worked best.
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My wife Eileen shows off one the many smallmouth bass she caught at Banks Lake recently. We caught over 50 fish, with eight weighing over a pound to over two pounds.
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There are lots of perch like this one to be caught at Fish Lake, near Lake Wenatchee right now. This is the time to load up the kids, grab a tub of crawlers and have a blast.
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This the last step that fish take to reach the Columbia above Wanapum. You can see both a summer-run king and a sockeye about to take the plunge, that was over 20 feet, and now is just a few.
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When fish exit the ladder at Wanapum they use this "water park" feature to reach the up stream side of the dam. This slide compensates for the low water level as repairs are made to the dam.
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This is the new extension to the fish ladder at Wanapum Dam. This allows fish to make it above the dam with the low water levels. As you can see both the summer-run kings and sockeye are using it.
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I was invited by Grant County PUD on a tour of the fish passage methods at Wanapum and Priest Rapids dams. Here I am in front to the new down stream juvenile passage gates at Priest Rapids. They just opened on April 1st.
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Audry Kelley, with the help of Shane, shows off the king she got on the opening day of salmon season at Chelan Falls. She was asleep in the bow when the fish hit!
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Kyle Kelley puts a lot of spring salmon in his drift boat on the Icicle, and he switched to summer-run kings on the opening day of salmon season at Chelan Falls.
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Angela Kelley got the first fish into the boat on opening day of salmon season. We were all pleased to see that it was a hatchery fish and could go into the cooler.
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